Manchester United caretaker manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer insists his team can do something no club has ever done in the Champions League – overturn a two-goal deficit from the home leg.
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The Reds have been written off in some quarters ahead of the conclusion of the round-of-16 clash with Paris Saint-Germain, following the 2-0 defeat at Old Trafford and Paul Pogba’s red card, but Ole remains optimistic his players can deliver on the big stage, and dismisses the idea it’s ‘mission impossible’ in the French capital.
“It is a difficult task but we can do it,” he said at his press conference in Paris. “Obviously, we need the first goal and need to stay in the game. If there’s half an hour left, and only one goal in it, anything can happen.
”We need a good plan. It needs to be put in place. We need to perform on the night, of course, as they are a team full of quality.“
Solskjaer has stressed there are other examples of miraculous comebacks in Europe’s premier competition and expects his team to show they were hurt by the first-leg result.
“Of course, everyone knows that we can do it,” he said.“That we have done it. The results in the Champions League over the last few years have been… I don’t want to call them strange, but like last year, Juventus lost 3-0 at home against Real Madrid and suddenly they were 3-0 up after 90 minutes against Madrid away.
”The year before that, PSG versus Barcelona, we all remember those results. There are so many examples of teams that can change results like this.
“Us as a club, we’ve done it so many times. The players have been fantastic away from home, we’ve beaten Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham away from home which has given us belief that we can do this as well.
